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# leur — French to English

How French *leur* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: leur (1 270 928), leures (1), leurs (873 976). By style: everyday 3 057 · literary 308 · biblical 3 719 · parliamentary 114 597 · legal and administrative 184 567 · UN documents 1 838 657.

## their

Used about 1 312 818 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 388 · literary ≈ 234 · biblical ≈ 2 673 · parliamentary ≈ 68 042 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 122 · UN documents ≈ 1 118 358).

- Ce n’est pas **leur** faute.
  It's not **their** fault.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CM · checked, community translation · [\#2440057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2440057) [\#2445343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2445343))

- C'est **leur** jour de sortie.
  It is **their** day to go out.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18583)

- **Leur** bouche est pleine de malédiction et d’amertume;
  “**Their** mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:14)

- Il va sans dire que **leur** histoire est horrible.
  **Their** stories are, of course, horrible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1452465)

- Imides et **leurs** dérivés; sels de ces produits
  Imides and **their** derivatives; salts thereof
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 197896)

## they

Used about 108 681 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 159 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 5 969 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 690 · UN documents ≈ 94 776). Meaning: [they in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/they/).

- Quels sont **leurs** noms ?
  What are **they** called?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496272) [\#3620832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3620832))

- C'était la première fois, depuis le commencement de **leur** ménage, qu'elle osait critiquer un acte du maître.
  It was the first time since **they** had set up housekeeping that she had dared to criticise one of the master’s acts.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9163)

- Le soleil et la lune s’arrêtent dans **leur** demeure, A la lumière de tes flèches qui partent, A la clarté de ta lance qui brille.
  The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as **they** went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 3:11)

- Je **leur** dis qu'ils doivent faire abstraction des détails techniques.
  To these people I would say that **they** should not let technicalities stand in the way.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1380066)

- elles traitent **leurs** clients équitablement et sans discrimination;
  **they** shall treat clients fairly and without discrimination;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2191823)

## them

Used about 29 682 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 318 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 814 · parliamentary ≈ 9 550 · UN documents ≈ 18 955). Meaning: [them in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/them/).

- **Leur** as-tu répondu ?
  Did you reply to **them**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10744302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10744302) [\#1243536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1243536))

- --Qu'est-ce que tu **leur** diras?
  “What will you say to **them**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18635)

- Je **leur** répondis: La parole de l’Éternel m’a été adressée, en ces mots:
  Then I said to **them**, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 24:20)

- Nous pourrions **leur** enseigner une chose ou l’autre à cet égard.
  We could teach **them** a thing or two in this respect.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 848984)

- Dans un certain nombre de cas, plusieurs organismes de coordination ont été créés, mais **leur** collaboration est inégale et pas toujours efficace.
  In a number of cases, multiple coordinating bodies have been established, but the collaboration between **them** is uneven and not always effective.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27409229)

## children

Used about 20 149 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 194 · UN documents ≈ 18 955).

- Sans un environnement intact, ni nous-mêmes ni nos enfants, ni **leurs** enfants n'auront l'avenir que nous souhaitons.
  Without a healthy environment, neither we nor our **children** and children's children have the future we all want.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1127897)

- f) Les enfants privés de **leur** milieu familial (art. 20);
  (f) **Children** deprived of a family environment (art. 20);
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21177595)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Les étudiants sont affairés à préparer **leur** examen.
  The students are busy preparing for the test.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and Akenaseryan · checked, community translation · [\#5516573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5516573) [\#5488694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5488694))

- La compagnie exploitait ses travailleurs en **leur** payant un salaire très bas.
  The company exploited its workers through low wages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Ivan24 · checked, community translation · [\#22380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22380) [\#409115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/409115))

- Les préparatifs battent **leur** plein.
  Preparations are in full swing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and viorel · checked, community translation · [\#6061745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6061745) [\#10727094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10727094))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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